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RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10135
RECORD SERIES : National Security Files
AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ,
ORIGINATOR : CIA
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TO: .
TITLE : CIA Information Telegram
DATE : 10/4/1963
PAGES : 2
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_ DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000

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COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam,10/6/1963-10/14/63. Box 2

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COUNTRY soUTH VIETNAM : REPORT NO. TDCS-3/560,871
SURJECT PLANNED SUICIDE OF AMBASSADOR DATE DISTR. 4 octoser 1963
_BUU HOI'S MOTHER, DIEU HUE .
’ PRECEDENCE PRIORITY
DATE OF 3 ocToBer 1963 REFERENCES IN 32958
INFO. .
PLACE & VIETNAM, SAIGON (3 octoBer 1963) ; : :
DATE ACO. . ;
APPRAISAL FIELD-REPORTNO. “ FvS 9731.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENTIS-TENTATIVE.

SOURCE A VIETNAMESE BUSINESSMAN (Ff) WITH GOOD CONTACTS AMONG BUDDHISTS.
APPR! EARLIER ALLEGED INTENTIONS OF DIEU HUE TO COMMIT SUICIDE .IN ‘SUPPORT OF

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COUNTRIES AND ‘CURRENTLY THE GOVERNMNT OF VITNAM: (evn) ‘OBSERVER
AT THE UNITED NATIONS (UN), AD DECIDED To COMMIT SUFCEDE,:. ‘PROBABLY
ON 5 OCTOBER, _THREATWAS TIMED FOR IMPACT ON’ THE “UN-'BUT-WAS : NOT
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3. JUST PRIOR TO THE SUICIDE, THE COMPANION ‘PLANNED. TO.) _
DELIVER’ A COPY OF THE LETTER TO THE! U,.S:i EMBASSY: FOR AMBASSADOR
LODGE AND TO. SEEK ASYLUM. THERE, SHE BELIVED HER LIFE WOULD. BE
IN DANGER AS THE .GVN WOULD KNOW THAT ONLY SHE COULD: HAVE: DISTRIBUTED:
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OS THICH THIEN HOA, PRESIDENT OF THE PRO-GVN’ ‘UNION’ Comittee
FOR THE DEFENSE OF PURE ‘BUDDHISM AND MOST: OF “THE: OTHER: MONKS AND:

“NUNS AT: THE AN QUANG: PAGODA, ‘WHERE DI EU HUE” AND HER COMPAN ON 7
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